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EA just canceled the Black Panther game nobody asked for — and honestly, it’s about time. Loaded with woke nonsense and ex–Sweet Baby Inc. hires, this was never a game for you.
If you’re tired of EA pushing agenda-driven games and ignoring what gamers want, this video’s for you.
Watch how EA keeps failing the fans and killing the games we actually care about.
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i got to tell you guys there was a time
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when hearing about a game studio
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shutting down actually bothered me but
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now I'm numb to it why should I care
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when so many of these teams are filled
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with people who seem to have a contempt
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an open contempt for gamers and the very
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community they claim to serve the people
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that they make video games for so this
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is the latest studio shutdown here ea
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just canned their upcoming Black Panther
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game and shut down the developer
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Cliffhanger Games and honestly I'm not
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surprised we should have seen this
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coming this project was already
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surrounded by controversy thanks to some
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of the developers own public behavior
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and statements some of which have
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triggered a media meltdown uh if if the
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roles uh were reversed you know if if we
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had anybody that was right leaning or
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anybody that wasn't part of the industry
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of this whole woke progressive side that
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has infected video games they the media
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would have attacked them i mean we've
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seen what they've done with people like
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Kirch recently we've seen what they've
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tried to do with Camelot recently among
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other content creators reporters news
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sites if you're not part of the DEI
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agenda you get cancelled right so
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anytime that these developers eventually
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shut down they blame gamers instead of
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their own mistakes instead of them
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saying stuff against white people or
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male gamers or just in general just
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holding this hatred for gamers it's
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always their fault right it's never the
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person that said the weird crazy woke
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stuff's fault it's never the studio's
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fault it's the gamers the consumer's
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fault so according to this new report
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from IGN EA sent out an internal email
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that announced not only the closure of
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Cliffhanger games but also layoffs that
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would be hitting their mobile and
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central teams this is EA we see this
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like every year right ea says this is
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all part of a new focus on what they're
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calling significant growth opportunities
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which in translation they're finally
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starting to rei realize that hiring
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people more concerned with activism than
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game design isn't exactly a winning
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formula so could the world be possibly
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healing we'll see again it's EA i don't
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hold my breath as far as I could throw
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them right let's rewind a bit this Black
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Panther project was already on shaky
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grounds as I mentioned one of the
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narrative designers formerly with Sweet
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Baby Inc Yeah that Sweet Baby Inc they
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proudly declared that her previous games
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development team had no white people
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because she wanted a safe
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space imagine saying that exact thing in
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reverse right no black people on the
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team because we wanted a safe space that
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would be front page news but apparently
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when it's flipped it's considered
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progressive why the gaming industry is
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full of people like this i have no clue
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but again doesn't surprise me somebody
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that was involved with Sweet Baby Inc
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getting with another studio that shuts
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down it's not a surprise at this point
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anybody that works for that company
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essentially becomes a nail in the coffin
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as we're seeing here once again and this
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wasn't subtle from this individual this
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was proudly proclaimed during a talk at
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the Game Devs of Color Expo guys they
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said the only way to feel safe was to be
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surrounded by people just like her and
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that's not diversity guys that's
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literally building an ideological bubble
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and now people are shocked that the
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studios getting the axe no nobody wanted
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this game anyway all right sorry not
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sorry that's the cold hard truth and
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this whole diversity through
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exclusivity doesn't work all right to
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quote Hulk Hogan "It doesn't work for me
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brother." There's the narrative that
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this game would have somehow elevated
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the genre that it was going to be uh
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bold and groundbreaking you know the
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buzzwords how would it be bold right how
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would Black Panther been bold by
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staffing it with ideologies
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um people that treat game development
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like a social experiment people that are
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focused on political narratives instead
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of actually entertaining their
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consumers because based on what we know
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about the folks that were leading this
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thing they seem more focused again on
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virtue signaling than making a
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compelling superhero game and that seems
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to be the pattern and the case with most
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studios now i mean look at Concord look
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at Fair Games look at Dustor look at
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Avoued look at Assassin's Creed Shadow i
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mean do we go down the list of games
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that have been a complete failure this
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past year and of course I'm not sure
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everyone at Cliffhanger was on board
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with this nonsense right but there was
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another lead pro uh writer on this
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project that also gave a talk at GDC
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recently about using simple language in
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scripts and embracing Tumblr speak and
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they were proudly advertising their work
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on this game just days ago and now poof
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gone and the internet's reaction is just
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basically like oh oh no oh anyway and
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just you know forgetting you know
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forgetting about it so yeah again I'm
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sure not everybody that was working at
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Cliffhangers like this imagine just
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wanting to do your job and not wanting
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to get involved in the culture war but
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all the leads at your job are focused on
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nonsense like like racism and
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progressiveness and LGBTQ and DEI
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instead of just making a good game you
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lose your job right there was probably a
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few people who just wanted to make a
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great game who loved Black Panther who
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loved Marvel and were generally excited
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to contribute something awesome but
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unfortunately their work was
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overshadowed by activists that
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masquerade as developers and let's be
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real though we're talking about Sweet
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Baby Inc those who orbit around it have
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become poison for public rel relations
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all right the PR is a disaster these are
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the same folks who believe racism is
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okay as long as it's targeted in the
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right direction and now that companies
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are realizing this behavior actually
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hurts their bottom line we're suddenly
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seeing studios drop like flies guys this
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is again no coincidence and EA isn't
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alone here guys layoffs and closures are
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hitting the industry hard but in this
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case I can't say I'm shedding a tear
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about it this project again was already
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dragging its feet it was marred with
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baggage and frankly with uh that Captain
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America and Black Panther uh Rise of
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Hydra still set to release did we really
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need another Marvel game spinning its
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wheels and I'm sure in the coming weeks
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we'll see some of these developers come
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out blast EA on social media paint
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themselves as victims we've seen it
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before uh the gamers would be at fault
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the Chuds would be to blame it's the
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same song and dance every time right but
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maybe just maybe this is again what
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happens when you prioritize ideology
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over talent this is when you DEI hire
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this is when you treat a video game as a
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soap box rather than a product that
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people actually want to buy when are
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they going to learn their lessons right
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here so yeah Black Panther's canled
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cliffhanger's gone and as harsh as it
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sounds nothing of value was lost nothing
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of value so just another nail in the
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coffin of anything that's been touched
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by anybody that's remotely been involved
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with Sweet Baby Inc uh let me know what
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you guys think in the comments down
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below was this cancellation inevitable
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did EA finally wise up i I I doubt it or
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is this just another symptom of a
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bloated industry that's collapsing under
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its own weight uh feel free to hit that
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like button subscribe thank you for
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watching and uh I'll see you on the next
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one guys thank you so much for watching